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Mid North Coast · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1869

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Prosperity to the Farmers Means Prosperity to Us All

The Manning River News and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 2 January 1869 · page 2

DURING our absence we have gathered, additional evidence in support of an opinion long entertained, that upon the profitable use of its lands depends the prosperity and consequent advance…

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The Pastoral Interest

The Manning River News and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 9 January 1869 · page 2

THE pastures of the colony are suffering much from the drought, which is faying waste the most pleasant places, and drying up the water springs everywhere. It is said that the country around…

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Farming in Queensland. [From the Darling Downs Gazette.)

The Manning River News and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 9 January 1869 · page 3

IT would be scarcely possible to find the man that does not flatter himself that he knows “a little about farming,” and that if certain conditions of cultivation, with which…

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Arrival of the English Mall Per Geelong Hostilities Between Turkey and Greece. Mr Gladstone Premier. Discount, 8 Per Cent. Wool Firm at Last Rates. the New Ministry Adelaide, Tuesday, 19th

The Manning River News and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 30 January 1869 · page 4

THE branch steamer Alexandra, Capt. Wall, arrived off Glenelg Pier at 7 a.m., after a run of 93 hoprs from the Sound She left Adelaide at 4 p.m. on the 6th, and reached…

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Rural Affairs. PASTORAL

The Manning River News and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 13 February 1869 · page 4

THE same uniform best and drought that has prevailed for a month still continues, and proves extremely parching and oppressive. In [?] the pastoral country, therefore, in…

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The Weather and Crops

The Manning River News and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 13 February 1869 · page 2

A DREAR season of intense heat and drought has reigned uninterruptedly throughout most parts of the interior for the past month ; the visitation of a few thunder-showers at…

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Wool Report

The Manning River News and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 20 February 1869 · page 3

Colonial wool sales terminated on 21st December. There was a good attendance of home, buyers at the commencement, with an Unusually large number from France…

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The Farmer’s Column. Results of Management

The Manning River News and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 20 February 1869 · page 4

Two men planted out each onehundred peach trees, In three or four years they began to bear. One had spared no pains to bring his orchard into tho highest condition. He had…

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The farmer’s Column Rev. Mr.holland’s Mode of Making Sugar Without Machinery. To the Editor of the Herald

The Manning River News and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 27 February 1869 · page 4

SIR,—In my letter of the 1st inst. I promised to send you a condensed account of one or two practical lectures I delivered on the Richmond River, on the subject of [?]…

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The Farmer’s Column Another Alleged Cure of Rust in Wheat. (From the Cape Argus, July 16.)

The Manning River News and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 6 March 1869 · page 1

ELSEWHERE in our columns will be found an interesting letter on the rust in wheat. Our correspondent does not attempt any explanation of this most fatal grain disease. He…

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The Farmer’s Column British Laborers

The Manning River News and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 13 March 1869 · page 1

A paper read before the Association for the Advancement of Science, at a meeting held at Norfolk, on the 21st Aug. last. THE Rev, Canon Girdlestone read a paper on…

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The Farmer’s Column. Mr. Thomas Scott’s Latest Directions for Sugar-making

The Manning River News and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 20 March 1869 · page 4

WE clip the following from the Clarence Examiner, omitting only what Mr. Scott has already repeatedly told the public relative to his own merits:—…

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The Farmer’s Column

The Manning River News and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 27 March 1869 · page 1

BUTTER IN SACKS.—A correspondent of the Rockford Register, writing from Olympia, gives the method used on the Pacific coast for preserving butter;—I think the dairymen…

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The Farmer’s Column

The Manning River News and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 3 April 1869 · page 1

THE NEW WAY TO MAKE SUGAR.—On the 22nd of January last, says the London Times, 2,651 bags of sugar produced by the new “diffusion” process of M. Jules Robert at…

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The Framer’s Column. Rust in Wheat. (To the Editor of the Australasian.)

The Manning River News and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 10 April 1869 · page 1

SIR,—It has been said it is useless to discuss the question of “rust in wheat, Now, the common-sense view is that such questions are most in need of being discussed. “Why…

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The Farmer’s Column Artificial Grasses (From the [?]

The Manning River News and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 17 April 1869 · page 4

No squatter, where the climate is suitable, should be without his paddocks .of artificial grasses near his homestead, for the purpose of keeping stud and young stock, which…

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The Farmer’s Column. Management of Fruit Trees. (From the Australasian.)

The Manning River News and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 24 April 1869 · page 1

FOR many years we have devoted a considerable amount of attention to the subject of [?]ruit tree management, and have also had opportunities of contrasting the method of cultivation adopted in…

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The Farmer’s Column a Floating Sugar Mill (From the Brisbane Courier)

The Manning River News and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 1 May 1869 · page 4

It affords us satisfaction to notify, the undoubted success of; the floating sugar mill, which, a few days ago, commenced operations on three-quarters of an aere of cane…

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The Farmer’s Colum Erutt Tree Management (No . 2. ) (From the Australasian)

The Manning River News and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 8 May 1869 · page 4

HAVING stated our views with regard to the selection of a site for a fruit garden, and the advantage of shelter, &c., the next tbing requiring attention will be the means of…

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Farm Produce

The Manning River News and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 15 May 1869 · page 3

The farm produce was exhibited in the large room below the schoolhouse, and formed the finest exhibition of the kind we have yet seen in Sydney. Looking at the fine samples of plump…

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